Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Aristotle called this land of attitude "enlightened selfishness." Zoroaster said, "Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply—"When you are good to others," said Franklin, "you are best to yourself.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

They are far more likely to return the favor.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

"On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come, no collections will have to be made."

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."